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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca the Younger

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People

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